Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 1: Crash Course Literature 212
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Emily
Pilgrim HAS become stuck in time! I think that discounting the absurdist trope as a -just inside a character-s head- stylistic device undermines not just the anti-war themes in Slaughterhouse 5 but also robs the reader of a willing suspension of disbelief while enjoying the text. Why not have the Aliens be real? Does it make the story any more or less valid? The aliens themselves come up in pretty much every single novel by Vonnegut.
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Pilgrim HAS become stuck in time! I think that discounting the absurdist trope as a -just inside a character-s head- stylistic device undermines not just the anti-war themes in Slaughterhouse 5 but also robs the reader of a willing suspension of disbelief while enjoying the text. Why not have the Aliens be real? Does it make the story any more or less valid? The aliens themselves come up in pretty much every single novel by Vonnegut.
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Tricia
I was an inveterate Vonnegut fan as a young adult, and read everything of his that I could get my hands on. Some of his work seems to be speculative fiction, science fiction, or even a bizarre sort of magical realism. But I have always looked upon Slaughterhouse 5 as allegory. ( -ish) -Though maybe it's just an uncategorizable bit of anti-war semi-autobiographical escapist fantasy. Hard to say.
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I was an inveterate Vonnegut fan as a young adult, and read everything of his that I could get my hands on. Some of his work seems to be speculative fiction, science fiction, or even a bizarre sort of magical realism. But I have always looked upon Slaughterhouse 5 as allegory. ( -ish) -Though maybe it's just an uncategorizable bit of anti-war semi-autobiographical escapist fantasy. Hard to say.
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Timothy
Some people use this book as a source for saying Dresden was an -Unjustifiable- target. Dresden was a very justifiable target, thousands of troops everyday went through Dresden, it wasn't untouched, it was bombed before, and 300, 000 people didnt die, 25, 000 did. This book is science fiction, do not use it as a source
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Some people use this book as a source for saying Dresden was an -Unjustifiable- target. Dresden was a very justifiable target, thousands of troops everyday went through Dresden, it wasn't untouched, it was bombed before, and 300, 000 people didnt die, 25, 000 did. This book is science fiction, do not use it as a source
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TictacAddict1
To bad Vonnegut wasn't one of those liberating a NAZI extermination camp or in London during the Blitz, he might really have some war horrors to tell. Oh wait, those were just ethically impure humans and those standing in the way of racist cold blooded socialist murderers, nothing to see here.
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To bad Vonnegut wasn't one of those liberating a NAZI extermination camp or in London during the Blitz, he might really have some war horrors to tell. Oh wait, those were just ethically impure humans and those standing in the way of racist cold blooded socialist murderers, nothing to see here.
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Caper.
When I was seven, I went to my great grandmothers funeral. I vividly remember having an overwhelming urge to laugh. Then I had a recurring dream about her for months. I was ashamed of her funeral until I learned about hysteria.
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When I was seven, I went to my great grandmothers funeral. I vividly remember having an overwhelming urge to laugh. Then I had a recurring dream about her for months. I was ashamed of her funeral until I learned about hysteria.
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Elizabeth
i loved this book because at the beginning the alien plot sounds obviously crazy but as it goes on you really think it happened and i think that speaks on subjective really well
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i loved this book because at the beginning the alien plot sounds obviously crazy but as it goes on you really think it happened and i think that speaks on subjective really well
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Skylight
Pretty sure I disagree with your basic thesis. But the thing is, Vonnegut cannot be considered outside the entirety of his lexicon from which valuable insight can be derived.
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Pretty sure I disagree with your basic thesis. But the thing is, Vonnegut cannot be considered outside the entirety of his lexicon from which valuable insight can be derived.
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peter
idiot book for idiots. want an ant-war book. 'goodbye to all that' with a dozen others. 'all quiet on the western front' is not a cowardly cop out like slaughter house five.
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idiot book for idiots. want an ant-war book. 'goodbye to all that' with a dozen others. 'all quiet on the western front' is not a cowardly cop out like slaughter house five.
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Gianna
Literature is really a combination of everything. History, psychology, the past, the future.
it's quite interesting to see how everything played out.
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Literature is really a combination of everything. History, psychology, the past, the future.
it's quite interesting to see how everything played out.
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